Correct!
Is it an assault rifle?
Gee I don’t know is a French knife a tool or a weapon? It’s a tool if I’m cutting carrots but a weapon if a thug is threatening the kitchen crew during a robbery.
Seems even a rifle used to hunt deer would have a hard time being a weapon. Is the deer counter attacking? If so then yes, but taking the deer for food the rifle is like using an effective tool.
Even in the hands of a trained soldier a dreaded black rifle may be used as much to defend a position and himself than assault anything.
Chances are good that the vast majority of scary black guns in the hands of Americans will rarely be used only for defense, but most often for entertainment. Serious duty knocking down cans, punching holes in paper and even quickly emptying water filled milk containers.
I think we should call them defense rifles, or maybe just accessories used in shooting sports. Sort of like ski poles or scuba tanks
We need to take control of the language.
Remember killing unborn children is described by the media as Pro-Choice
Did you ever notice how few butchers get assaulted while they’re working?